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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: I will move to a couple of policy issues which may be lumped together. The first involves statistics for immigration enforcement. In its concluding observations on the second periodic review of Ireland the UN Committee Against Torture requested the State to provide it with data in the next periodic review for the countries of origin of persons denied leave to land and the point of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: Mr. Kirrane is saying that the people from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Libya who were sent back did not want asylum, but how sure is he that they were given every opportunity to assert their asylum claims and explain their points? Are translators and so on provided? Mr. Kirrane referred to six weeks of training. How do officers deal with the person to ensure that he or she knows that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: Mr. Kirrane is saying that, because someone registered in or went to Germany first, that person will be sent back there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: Is that done under this clause?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: That is what I am asking about. What is the process? Is the officer trained to make the offer? Is it on the checklist for an officer to tell someone that, if he or she is claiming asylum, the officer will deal with that and send the person somewhere? Does Mr. Kirrane know what I mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: That is helpful. Is an applicant provided with the services of a liaison officer and a translator?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: It would be made clear to the applicant they would be entitled to have a translator and if they require one, a call would be made to bring one in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: When will the UN Convention against Torture recommendation regarding data publication be implemented?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: This is not a question, it is a requirement. It is an UNCAT recommendation to which Ireland is required to conform. Are plans under way to ensure that we can be compliant with that recommendation----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: INIS will meet the target but Mr. Kirrane does not know when that will be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: That would be great.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: I want that. The Chairman had forgotten my other questions but I had not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: Excellent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: We succeeded in having an amendment to the legislation accepted, which provides that if the Minister makes a regulation to restrict this, the Houses of the Oireachtas will have the power to review that; we will have the power to correct that if we do not like it. Is it INIS's intention to restrict in that respect?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: There will be some restriction. We know the upheaval this has caused in the UK.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: That is helpful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: Good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: I do not mean to be rude but I find that completely unacceptable, given the years of litigation around this matter. For Mr. Kirrane to say it is something he is looking at is no consolation to the people concerned. We are not going to get agreement on this and I would simply make that point. This is bizarre. It seems some of the reasons there are problems in the area is that we are being...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: If it was, INIS would not have challenged their views in three separate courts, it would have just gone along with it. What did it keep challenging what they were saying?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)
Clare Daly: This involves hundreds of people, it is not an individual case in this category where they were timed out. I do not want a response to this point but I am making a plea to the service. I tabled a parliamentary question on this matter but it was not accepted. The service's website is diabolical. I have never in my life seen a website as bad. I had to deal with a visa application for...